Corrects missing spaces after periods as well as two scripture references

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@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ January 19th|january-19|<strong>Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.</str
 January 20th|january-20|<strong>His name shall be called Wonderful.</strong>+ +The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth. -- Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.+ +They shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. -- JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.+ +All men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. -- God ... hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name. -- Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come; and hath put all things under his feet. -- He had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself ... KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.+ +Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out. -- What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?  |Isa 9:6; John 1:14; Psa 138:2; Matt 1:23; Matt 1:21; John 5:23; Phl 29; Eph 1:21,22; Rev 19:12,16; Job 37:23; Prov 30:4|<strong>The Lord's portion is his people.</strong>+ +Ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. -- I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. -- I am his. -- The Son of God ... loved me, and gave himself for me.+ +Ye are not your own, ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. -- The Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.+ +Ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. -- Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. -- A spiritual house, an holy priesthood.+ +They shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels. -- All mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. -- The glory of his inheritance in the saints.  |Deut 32:9; 1 Cor 3:23; Song 7:10; Song 2:16; Gal 2:20; 1 Cor 6:19,20; Deut 4:20; 1 Cor 3:9; Heb 3:6; 1 Pet 2:5; Mal 3:17; John 17:10; Eph 1:18
 January 21st|january-21|<strong>Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it.</strong>+ +He is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.+ +We glory in tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. -- If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees.  |John 15:2; Mal 3:2,3; Rom 5:3; Heb 12:7,8,11,12|<strong>Now we call the proud happy.</strong>+ +Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.+ +Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. -- Blessed are the poor in spirit for their's is the kingdom of heaven.+ +These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: a proud look, ... . -- Every one that is proud of heart is an abomination to the Lord.+ +Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.+ +Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you. -- Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.  |Mal 3:15; Isa 57:15; Prov 16:19; Matt 5:3; Prov 6:16,17; Prov 16:5; Psa 139:23,24; Phl 1:2,3; Matt 5:5
 January 22nd|january-22|<strong>This God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.</strong>+ +O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. -- The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup.+ +He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness, for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. -- Thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. -- Our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. -- The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.  |Psa 48:14; Isa 25:1; Psa 16:5; Psa 23:3,4; Psa 73:23; Psa 33:21; Psa 138:8|<strong>In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.</strong>+ +O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me. -- Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. it:+ +I am but a litile child: I know not how to go out or come in. -- If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, ... and it shall be given him.+ +Who is sufficient for these things? -- I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing. -- My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee ... Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.+ +My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; ... when I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.  |Psa 94:19; Psa 61:2; Isa 38:14; Psa 55:22; 1 Kgs 3:7; Jas 1:5; 2 Cor 2:16; Rom 7:18; 2 Cor 12:9; Matt 9:2,22; Psa 63:5,6
-January 23rd|january-23|<strong>Hope maketh not ashamed.</strong>+ +I am the Lord: ... they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. -- Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. -- Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength. -- My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved. -- I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed.+ +God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us; which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus.  |Rom 5:5; Isa 49:23; Jer 17:7; Isa 26:3,4; Psa 62:5,6; 2 Tim 1:12; Heb 6:17|<strong>The offence of the cross.</strong>+ +If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.+ +Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. -- We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. -- Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence.+ +God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. -- I am crucified with Christ. -- They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us.  |Gal 5:11; Matt 16:24; Isa 4:4; Acts 14:22; Rom 9:33; 1 Pet 2:7,8; Gal 6:1; Gal 2:20; Gal 5:24; 2 Tim 2:12
+January 23rd|january-23|<strong>Hope maketh not ashamed.</strong>+ +I am the Lord: ... they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. -- Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. -- Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength. -- My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved. -- I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed.+ +God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us; which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus.  |Rom 5:5; Isa 49:23; Jer 17:7; Isa 26:3,4; Psa 62:5,6; 2 Tim 1:12; Heb 6:17|<strong>The offence of the cross.</strong>+ +If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.+ +Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. -- We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. -- Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence.+ +God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. -- I am crucified with Christ. -- They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us.  |Gal 5:11; Matt 16:24; Jas 4:4; Acts 14:22; Rom 9:33; 1 Pet 2:7,8; Gal 6:1; Gal 2:20; Gal 5:24; 2 Tim 2:12
 January 24th|january-24|<strong>The Lord is at hand.</strong>+ +The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. -- He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly; Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.+ +Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. -- Abstain from all appearance of evil. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.+ +Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.  |Phl 4:5; 1 Thes 4:16; Rev 22:20; 2 Pet 3:14; 1 Thes 5:22; Jas 5:8|<strong>The choice vine.</strong>+ +My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, ... and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. -- Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me.+ +The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, ... envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: ... but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.+ +I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Abide in me, and I in you ... Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.  |Gen 49:11; Isa 5:1,2; Jer 2:21; Gal 5:19,21; John 15:1,2,4,8
 January 25th|january-25|<strong>The righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.</strong>+ +He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. -- Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. -- Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. -- Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.+ +I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.  |Rom 3:22; 2 Cor 5:21; Gal 3:13; 1 Cor 1:30; Tit 3:5,6; Phl 3:8,9|<strong>The spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.</strong>+ +Jesus ... lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, ... Holy Father, ... O righteous Father. -- He said, Abba, Father. -- Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. -- For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints and of the household of God.+ +Doubtless thou art our father, ... thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.+ +I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children.  |Rom 8:15; John 17:1,11,25; Mark 14:36; Gal 4:6; Eph 2:18,19; Isa 63:16; Luke 15:18; Eph 5:1
-January 26th|january-26|<strong>Let us go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.</strong>+ +Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. -- As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.+ +If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.+ +They departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. -- Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.  |Heb 13:13,14; 1 Pet 4:12,13; 2 Cor 1:7; 1 Pet 4:14; Acts 5:41; Heb 11:25,26|<strong>The Lord Jesus Christ ... shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.</strong>+ +Upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.+ +We all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. -- It doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.+ +They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more. -- They sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb.  |Phl 3:20,21; Ezek 1:26; 2 Cor 3:18; 1 John 3:2; Rev 7:16; Rev 15:3
+January 26th|january-26|<strong>Let us go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.</strong>+ +Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. -- As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.+ +If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.+ +They departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. -- Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.  |Heb 13:13,14; 1 Pet 4:12,13; 2 Cor 1:7; 1 Pet 4:14; Acts 5:41; Heb 11:25,26|<strong>The Lord Jesus Christ ... shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.</strong>+ +Upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.+ +We all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. -- It doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.+ +They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more. -- They sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb.  |Phl 3:20,21; Ezek 1:26-27; 2 Cor 3:18; 1 John 3:2; Rev 7:16; Rev 15:3
 January 27th|january-27|<strong>Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins: and in him is no sin.</strong>+ +God, ... hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. -- He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.+ +Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold; ... but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. -- The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.  |1 John 3:5; Heb 1:13; 2 Cor 5:21; 1 Pet 1:17; 2 Cor 5:14,15|<strong>I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life.</strong>+ +For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.+ +If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin but now they have no cloke for their sin. That servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.+ +The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. -- He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him. -- Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?+ +If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.  |Deut 30:19; Ezek 18:32; John 15:22; Luke 12:47; Rom 6:23; John 3:36; Rom 6:16; John 12:26
 January 28th|january-28|<strong>As thy days, so shall thy strength be.</strong>+ +When they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. -- Take no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. The God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God. -- He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.+ +My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. -- O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.  |Deut 33:25; Matt 13:11; Matt 6:34; Psa 68:35; Isa 40:29; 2 Cor 12:9,10; Phl 4:13; Judg 5:21|<strong>Awake, O north wind, and ... blow upon my garden, that the the spices thereof may flow out.</strong>+ +No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. -- The fruit of the Spirit.+ +He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.+ +Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.+ +Though [Jesus] were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the the things which he suffered. -- In all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.  |Song 4:16; Heb 12:11; Gal 5:22; Isa 27:8; Psa 103:13; 2 Cor 4:16; Heb 5:8; Heb 4:15
 January 29th|january-29|<strong>Thou God seest me.</strong>+ +O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether ... Such knowledge is too wonderful for me: it is high, I cannot attain unto it.+ +The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. -- The ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings. -- God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. -- The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.+ +Jesus ... knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man; for he knew what was in man. -- Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee.  |Gen 16:13; Psa 139:1-4,6; Prov 15:3; Prov 5:21; Luke 16:15; 2 Chr 16:9; John 2:24,25; John 21:17|<strong>I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.</strong>+ +Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me. -- It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: to shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.+ +I beseech you, ... brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. -- Jesus ... that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. -- Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.  |Psa 86:12; Psa 50:23; Psa 92:1,2; Psa 150:6; Rom 12:1; Heb 13:12,15; Eph 5:20; Rev 5:12
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 May 11th|may-11|<strong>Awake to righteousness, and sin not.</strong>+ +Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.+ +It is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. -- Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. -- Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed: and make you a new heart and a new spirit. -- Lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. -- Little children, abide in him that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.  |1 Cor 15:34; 1 Thes 5:5,6; Rom 13:11,12; Eph 6:13; Ezek 18:31; Jas 1:21; 1 John 2:28,29|<strong>My sheep hear my voice.</strong>+ +Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.+ +I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled. I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.+ +Speak; for thy servant heareth. -- When Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house. And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. -- I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.  |John 10:27; Rev 3:20; Song 5:2,6; 1 Sam 3:10; Luke 19:5,6; Psa 85:8
 May 12th|may-12|<strong>Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.</strong>+ +The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us. -- Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. -- He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself.+ +In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. -- In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. -- That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.+ +Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  |1 John 4:7; Rom 5:5; Rom 8:15,16; 1 John 5:10; 1 John 4:9; Eph 1:7; Eph 2:7; 1 John 4:11|<strong>Reproach hath broken my heart.</strong>+ +Is not this the carpenter's son? -- Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? -- Say we not well that thou are a Samaritan, and hast a devil? -- He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils. -- We know that this man is a sinner. -- He deceiveth the people. -- This man blasphemeth. -- Behold a man gluttonous and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.+ +It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. -- This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow his steps. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. -- If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye.  |Psa 69:20; Matt 13:55; John 1:46; John 8:48; Matt 9:34; John 9:24; John 7:12; Matt 9:3; Matt 11:19; Matt 10:25; 1 Pet 2:19-23; 1 Pet 4:14
 May 13th|may-13|<strong>Pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.</strong>+ +The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. -- Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. -- When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any.+ +Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. -- Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.+ +If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. -- My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins.  |1 Tim 2:8; John 4:23,24; Isa 58:9; Mark 11:25; Heb 11:6; Jas 1:6,7; Psa 66:18; 1 John 2:1,2|<strong>My heart panteth, my strength faileth me.</strong>+ +Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.+ +He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For when I am weak, then am I strong.+ +When (Peter) saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? -- If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. -- He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. -- The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. -- Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power.  |Psa 38:10; Psa 61:1,2; 2 Cor 12:9,10; Matt 14:30,31; Prov 24:10; Isa 40:29; Deut 33:27; Col 1:11
-May 14th|may-14|<strong>The fellowship of His sufferings.</strong>+ +It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord.+ +He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. -- In the world ye shall have tribulation. -- Because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.+ +I looked for some to take pity, but there was none. -- At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me.+ +The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. -- Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.+ +Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.  |Phl 3:10; Matt 10:25; Isa 53:3; John 16:33; John 15:19; Psa 69:20; 2 Tim 4:16; Matt 8:20; Heb 13:14; Heb 12:1,2|<strong>They overcame ... by the blood of the Lamb.</strong>+ +Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died. -- It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. -- I am the LORD. The blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.+ +There is ... no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.+ +What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.cUnto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.  |Rev 12:11; Rom 8:33,34; Lev 17:11; Exo 12:12,13; Rom 8:1; Rev 7:13,14; Rev 1:5,6
+May 14th|may-14|<strong>The fellowship of His sufferings.</strong>+ +It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord.+ +He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. -- In the world ye shall have tribulation. -- Because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.+ +I looked for some to take pity, but there was none. -- At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me.+ +The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. -- Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.+ +Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.  |Phl 3:10; Matt 10:25; Isa 53:3; John 16:33; John 15:19; Psa 69:20; 2 Tim 4:16; Matt 8:20; Heb 13:14; Heb 12:1,2|<strong>They overcame ... by the blood of the Lamb.</strong>+ +Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died. -- It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. -- I am the LORD. The blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.+ +There is ... no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.+ +What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.  |Rev 12:11; Rom 8:33,34; Lev 17:11; Exo 12:12,13; Rom 8:1; Rev 7:13,14; Rev 1:5,6
 May 15th|may-15|<strong>God shall wipe away all tears: ... there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, ... for the former things are passed away.</strong>+ +He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. -- Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. -- The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. -- The voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. -- Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.+ +I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction. -- The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.+ +The things which are not seen are eternal.  |Rev 21:4; Isa 25:8; Isa 60:20; Isa 33:24; Isa 65:19; Isa 35:10; Hos 13:14; 1 Cor 15:26,54; 2 Cor 4:18|<strong>Raised up together in Christ Jesus.</strong>+ +Fear not; ... I am he that liveth. -- Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.+ +We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. -- He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead. -- Ye are complete in him, which is the head.+ +Forasmuch ... as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil: and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.+ +This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.  |Eph 2:6; Rev 1:17,18; John 17:24; Eph 5:30; Col 1:18; Col 2:10; Heb 2:14,15; 1 Cor 15:53,54
 May 16th|may-16|<strong>A servant of Jesus Christ.</strong>+ +Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. -- If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. -- Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.+ +What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. -- Being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.+ +Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. -- Thou art no more a servant, but a son.+ +Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh.  |Rom 1:1; John 13:13; John 12:26; Matt 11:29,30; Phl 3:7; Rom 6:22; John 15:15; Gal 4:7; Gal 5:1,13|<strong>I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel.</strong>+ +His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor. -- Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding, I have strength. -- Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.+ +O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. -- Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. -- Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established. -- He knoweth the way that I take. -- Man's goings are of the Lord: how can a man then understand his own way?+ +Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. -- This God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.  |Psa 16:7; Isa 9:6; Prov 8:14; Psa 119:105; Prov 3:5,6; Jer 10:23; Isa 30:21; Prov 16:3; Job 23:10; Prov 20:24; Psa 73:24; Psa 48:14
 May 17th|may-17|<strong>I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them.</strong>+ +As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. -- He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. -- Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. -- Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.+ +Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. -- Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes.+ +Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. -- The God of peace, ... make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ.  |Ezek 20:19; 1 Pet 1:15; 1 John 2:6,29; 1 Cor 7:19; Jas 2:10; 2 Cor 3:5; Psa 119:33; Phl 2:12,13; Heb 13:20,21|<strong>I have exalted one chosen out of the people.</strong>+ +Verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren. -- Upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. -- The Son of man ... which is in heaven. -- Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.+ +He made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. -- Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.  |Psa 89:19; Heb 2:16,17; Ezek 1:26; John 3:13; Luke 24:39; Phl 2:7‑10; Rev 3:2